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- From: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz)
- Subject: sci.math FAQ: Symbolic Computation
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- SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION PACKAGES
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- This is not a comprehensive list. There are other Computer Algebra
- packages available that may better suit your needs. There is an
- Available Packages listing maintained at UC Berkeley. (The list can be
- obtained from math.berkeley.edu via anonymous ftp).
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- A: Maple
- Purpose: Symbolic and numeric computation, mathematical
- programming, and mathematical visualization.
- Contact: Waterloo Maple Software,
- 450 Phillip Street
- Waterloo, Ontario
- N2L 5J2
- Phone (519)747-2373
- FAX (519)747-5284
- email: info@maplesoft.on.ca
- A: DOE-Macsyma
- Purpose: Symbolic and mathematical manipulations.
- Contact: National Energy Software Center
- Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue
- Argonne, Illinois 60439
- Phone: (708) 972-7250
- A: Pari
- Purpose: Number-theoretic computations and simple numerical
- analysis.
- Available for most 32-bit machines, including 386+387 and 486.
- This is a copyrighted but free package, available by ftp from
- math.ucla.edu (128.97.4.254) and ftp.inria.fr (128.93.1.26).
- Contact: questions about pari can be sent to pari@math.u-bordeaux.fr
- and for the Macintosh versions to bernardi@mathp7.jussieu.fr
- A: Mathematica
- Purpose: Mathematical computation and visualization,
- symbolic programming.
- Contact: Wolfram Research, Inc.
- 100 Trade Center Drive Champaign,
- IL 61820-7237
- Phone: 1-800-441-MATH
- info@wri.com
- A: Macsyma
- Purpose: Symbolic numerical and graphical mathematics.
- Contact: Macsyma Inc.
- 20 Academy Street
- Arlington, MA 02174
- tel: 617-646-4550
- fax: 617-646-3161
- email: info-macsyma@macsyma.com
- A: Matlab
- Purpose: `matrix laboratory' for tasks involving
- matrices, graphics and general numerical computation.
- Contact: The MathWorks, Inc.
- 21 Prime Park Way
- Natick, MA 01760
- 508-653-1415
- info@mathworks.com
- A: Cayley/Magma
- A: Cayley/Magma
- Cayley is no longer being licenced or supported.
- It has been superseded by a new and more powerful system
- called Magma.
- Purpose: Computation in algebraic, geometric and
- combinatorial structures such as groups, rings, fields,
- algebras, modules, graphs and codes.
- Available for: SUN 3, SUN 4, SUN 10 (SUNOS 4.x and Solaris 2)
- DECstation (Ultrix), DEC Alpha (OSF/1), IBM RS6000 (AIX),
- HP9000/700 (HP-UX), Apollo M680x0, SGI, 486/Pentium (MS-DOS).
- Contact: Computational Algebra Group
- School of Mathematics and Statistics
- University of Sydney
- NSW 2006
- Australia
- Phone: +61 2 351 3338
- Fax: +61 2 351 4534
- URL: http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/comp/magma/Overview.html
- magma@maths.su.oz.au
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